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So, I had an amazing experience last night. I couldn't sleep at all, I kept tossing and turning all night. I had to get up at 8:20 in the morning. Finally, at around 7:00 am I could feel the tension leaving my body, and felt I was relaxed enough to at least get SOME sleep. I slipped into sleep and wound up having fairly vivid dreams. In the dream, I was at a house staying with people I kind of knew, and one of their relatives was a big psycho a-la Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Really big guy, wearing overalls, and very obviously mentally disturbed. He actually had a chainsaw too. Everyone seemed to not really be bothered by him. At first I tried to ignore him, but then he started taunting me, saying how he loved chainsawing into people's heads because it made such pretty holes. Then, he started actually coming after me with the chainsaw. I remember being more pissed off and annoyed then scared, and I managed to wrestle the chainsaw away from him. Then he suddenly had an automatic screwdriver of some kind in that hand, and screwed something into my forehead. It didn't hurt at first, but then suddenly I could feel it throbbing in my skull. This made me really angry, so I killed him with the chainsaw by sawing into his head. He was laughing as I did it, saying he was enjoying it and loving the feel of the chainsaw cutting into his skull. It took a lot to finally kill him, but I remember looking over at a sound system that had an electronic display showing his vitals, and eventually it registered him as dead.

This is where things get really interesting. I can't remember clearly, but I think the pain in my head from the screw he lodged in there caused me to lay down in the dream. I don't know exactly how the transition occurred, but I found myself in a tunnel, mostly black with a circular opening at the end, and movement denoted by specks of color flowing along the walls of the tunnel. I was a little disappointed that it wasn't quite what I had expected from a tunnel; I was hoping for a 3D experience of being inside a vast tunnel with that added sense of space, but instead it was a very narrow and constricted 2D experience, occurring only on a vision screen. In any case, along with moving through the tunnel I remember experiencing something that felt kind of like electricity buzzing harshly around me, worst in my head and especially forehead. It actually gave me a bit of a headache for the first half of the following experience.

I was in this tunnel for around half a minute when I started wondering when I would end up going somewhere, and had the thought that perhaps I needed to choose a destination. There was just the slightest hint of a thought in the direction of a possible destination, and suddenly the opening at the end of the tunnel drew closer and opened up, leading into a scene I knew intuitively was from a world I had created. I was also pretty lucid, I knew that I was in some kind of projection or dreamspace. I was very excited, but as I came out of the tunnel I noticed everything looked like something from World of Warcraft. I wasn't too interested in wandering around that environment, so I took a look around and noticed that there seemed to be a variety of destinations from things I had created. In the dreamspace, I thought it was from a story I had written, but I recognized one of the floating landscapes as something from a particularly fantastical dream I had had years ago (a big floating mountain covered in forests with two large waterfalls source from the same U-shaped lake, with a deep lake beneath it. It was from one of my more epic dreams).

All of the landscapes seemed to be arranged in a circle, sort of like it was a room with model landscapes around the edges. I walked around the path that seemed to run between them all and ended up in a room in a house, with two of the people I do leatherwork with. I started experimenting with dream control by trying to make certain people appear, and had some limited success. Unfortunately, before I could really get into my alarm went off and interrupted me right in the middle of what was going on. I woke up straight from deep within the dreamstate. I have a feeling that this interruption was a big part in aiding recall of the experience, since I was interrupted in the middle of it and didn't have time to have the memories fogged by shallower stages of sleep.

I really wish I had gotten more sleep last night, but this experience has at least made up for the loss.